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Dear Nabokovians,
This is my favorite moment in all of the Nabokov corpus, the moral center if you will. It is Humbert seeing himself and not seeing himself as he really is. I'll spare all the explications, but it, especially the parenthesis, can be read in any number of ways.
Unless it can be proven to me-to me as I am now, today, with my heart and beard, and my putrefaction-that in the infinite run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl-child had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless it can be proven (and if it can, then life is a joke), I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
Lolita, Part Two Chapter 31.
Eric Hyman
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Ballooning . . .
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This is my favorite moment in all of the Nabokov corpus, the moral center if you will. It is Humbert seeing himself and not seeing himself as he really is. I'll spare all the explications, but it, especially the parenthesis, can be read in any number of ways.
Unless it can be proven to me-to me as I am now, today, with my heart and beard, and my putrefaction-that in the infinite run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl-child had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless it can be proven (and if it can, then life is a joke), I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
Lolita, Part Two Chapter 31.
Eric Hyman
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of NABOKV-L
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:49 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Ballooning . . .
Dear Nabokovians,
Please consider forwarding some sort of birthday balloon (a favorite quotation, an image, a Nabokovian memory, a poem, a witty salute, or anything else that strikes your fancy) within the next few days. Such submissions will be released into the ether on Nabokov's 110th birthday next Wednesday, April 23, for our collective delight.
:) SES
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
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